3o8 NOTES
51 Bucer, De Regno Christi.
54 Roger Fenton, A Treatise of Usurie, 1612, p. 61.
63 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans, by J»
Allen, 1838, vol. ii, p. 14? (t>k- &, ch. xxiii, par. 7).
w Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 128-9 (bk. iii, ch. xxi, par. 7).
55 Gerrard Winstanley, A New-Yeers Gift for the Parliament and
Armie, 1650 (Thomason Tracts, Brit. Mus., E. 587 (6), p. 42).
56 The Works of William Laud, D.D., ed. Wm. Scott, vol. vi.
pt, i, 1857, p. 213,
57 De Subventione Pauperum.
58 " Quod ad maiores natu spectat, a nobis quotanms repetitur
inspectio cuiusque familiae. Distribuimus inter nos urbis regiones,
ut ordine singulas decurias executere liceat. Adest ministro comes
unus ex senioribus. Illic novi incolae examinantur. Qui semel
recepti sunt, omittuntur; nisi quod requiritur sitne domus pacata
et recte composita, num lites cum vicinis, num qua ebrietas, num
pigri sint et ignari ad conciones frequentendas " (quoted by Wiske-
mann, op. cit., p. 80 n.). For his condemnation of indiscriminate
alms-giving, see ibid., p. 79 n.
59 De non habendo Pauperum Delectu (1523), and De Erogatione
Eleemosynarum (1524). See K. R. Hagenbach, Johann Oekolampad
and Oswald Myconius, die Reformatoren Baselst 1859, p. 46.
60 Carl Pestallozzi, Heinrich Bullinger, Leben und ausgewdhlte
Schriften, 1858, pp. 50-1, 122-5, 340-2.
61 Wiskemarm, op. cit., pp. 70-4.
62 Quoted by Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation, 1921,
p. 174.
63 Calvin, Inst., bk. iv, ch. xii, par, i.
** Printed hi Paul Henry, Das Leben Johann Calvins, vol. ii,
1838, Appx., pp. 26-41.
65 R. Christoffel, Zwingli, or the Rise of the Reformation in
Switzerland, trans, by John Cochran, 1858, pp. 159-60.
66 Printed in Paul Henry, op. cit.t vol. ii, Appx., pp. 23-5.
87 E. Choisy, LfEtat Chretien Calviniste a Geneve ait temps de
Theodore de B$ze, 1902, p. 145. I should like to make acknowledg-
ments to this excellent book for most of the matter contained in the
following paragraphs.
68 Paul Henry, op. cit.t pp. 70-5, Other examples are given
by Preserved Smith, op. cit.,\ pp. 170-4, and by F. W. Kamp-
schulte, Johann Calvin, seine Kirche und sein Staat in Genft 1869.
Statistical estimates of the bloodthirstiness of Calvin's regime vary ;
Smith (p. 171) states that in Geneva, a town of 16,000 inhabitants,
58 persons were executed and 76 banished in the years 1542-6.
69 Knox, quoted by Preserved Smith, op. citti p. 174* v
70 Calvin, Inst., bk. iii, ch. vii, par. 5.